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While entirely reliable and current information on exact acreage and/or yields is difficult to obtain, the winner of the world’s top wine grape (genus VITIS, species VINIFERA) is widely regarded as cabernet sauvignon. Originally cultivated in Bordeaux (an area just south of the “half-way point” of France’s Atlantic coast), cabernet sauvignon is now planted throughout...

Wine can be more than a bit mystifying.  It would be easy to conclude that the complicated layers wrapped around wine were put there intentionally, secreting away the joy of wine for some sort of epicurean secret society (or preserving job security for wine professionals).  The truth is that the complex culture surrounding wine has...